Le Havre © Stefan RotterBy Stuart Todd 24/01/2025Docker and port worker unions at France’s biggest container port, Le Havre, have begun a programme of intermittent industrial action set to take place over the next month in protest at state pension reform – and the dispute could spread to other French ports.Workers at the Normandy gateway will stage four-hour walkouts on 13 specific days, from the first, yesterday, to 28 February, as well as a series of 48-hour strikes.The walkouts are planned for 27, 29, 30, and 31 January and 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 26, and 28 February.Evidence that the labour unrest is likely to spread came yesterday when around 80 workers at the port of Calais stopped work between midday and 4pm, preventing passengers and freight getting on ferries....